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They sank lower and lower. 'Endelstow Vicarage is inside here, continued the man with the reins. 'This part about here is West Endelstow; Lord Luxellian's is East Endelstow, and has a church to itself. Pa'son Swancourt is the pa'son of both, and bobs backward and forward. Ah, well! 'tis a funny world. 'A b'lieve there was once a quarry where this house stands.

He put up those stone gate piers at the lodge entrance to Lord Luxellian's park. My grandfather planted the trees that belt in your lawn; my grandmother who worked in the fields with him held each tree upright whilst he filled in the earth: they told me so when I was a child. He was the sexton, too, and dug many of the graves around us.

There are few scenes in his books more telling than that which shows the operations in the family vault of the Luxellians, when John Smith, Martin Cannister, and old Simeon prepare the place for Lady Luxellian's coffin.

East Endelstow was more wooded and fertile: it boasted of Lord Luxellian's mansion and park, and was free from those bleak open uplands which lent such an air of desolation to the vicinage of the coast always excepting the small valley in which stood the vicarage and Mrs. Swancourt's old house, The Crags.

'Who is that lady in the carriage? he inquired indifferently of Lickpan the carrier. 'That, sir, is Mrs. Troyton, a widder wi' a mint o' money. She's the owner of all that part of Endelstow that is not Lord Luxellian's. Only been here a short time; she came into it by law.

Your peculiarities in chess-playing, the pronunciation papa noticed in your Latin, your odd mixture of book-knowledge with ignorance of ordinary social accomplishments, are accounted for in a moment. And has this anything to do with what I saw at Lord Luxellian's? 'What did you see? 'I saw the shadow of yourself putting a cloak round a lady.

A little farther, and an opening in the elms stretching up from this fertile valley revealed a mansion. 'That's Endelstow House, Lord Luxellian's, said the driver. 'Endelstow House, Lord Luxellian's, repeated the other mechanically.

There was no wall, the division between God's Acre and Lord Luxellian's being marked only by a few square stones set at equidistant points.

Swancourt. 'See, exclaimed Elfride, still looking towards them, 'how those little dears want me! Actually one of them is crying for me to come. 'We were talking of bracelets just now. Look at Lady Luxellian's, said Mrs. Swancourt, as that baroness lifted up her arm to support one of the children. 'It is slipping up her arm too large by half.

Swancourt said to Stephen the following morning, 'so I got Lord Luxellian's permission to send for a man when you came. I told him to be there at ten o'clock. He's a very intelligent man, and he will tell you all you want to know about the state of the walls. His name is John Smith. Elfride did not like to be seen again at the church with Stephen.